Overview

• Saskia Ludwig attended a Mathias Corvinus Collegium conference in Esztergom without informing her parliamentary group and was photographed conversing with AfD co-leader Alice Weidel.
• The Union parliamentary group issued a formal distancing statement, citing its Unvereinbarkeitsbeschluss that prohibits any collaboration with the AfD.
• University of Potsdam officials have launched a formal plagiarism inquiry into Ludwig’s 2007 doctoral thesis after confirming an initial suspicion.
• Green Youth co-chair Jakob Blasel has called for Ludwig’s expulsion from the Unionsfraktion to uphold a firm separation from right-wing extremism.
• Ludwig defended her attendance as an exercise in free speech, asserting that open dialogue is a fundamental democratic principle.